There's an offering of daylily seeds going right now, and I am very tempted since it's a fabulous deal! even though I know almost nothing about growing daylilies from seed and next to nothing about daylilies period except I love them.

So I've been wondering if anyone has any experience wintersowing daylily seeds and, if so, how did it go?

(I prefer to wintersow whenever possible as it has proven the most reliable seed-starting method of those available to me.)

That's good to know...thanks for the update. I have some Pandora seeds I'll try next year.

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You know, I thought of that. But that would have required me to keep track of the paper and I am terrible at keeping track of paper. Much safer to write names on jugs. I may or may not be able to keep track after they are planted out.... My good intentions in that regard are often not carried all the way through. Things keep happening!

But yes, wintersowing dls does work beautifully. I will see if I can get some decent pictures today or maybe tomorrow. Evidence.

I ws'd this year for the first time, and did WS a few daylilies. I also read about the DENO method of sprouting them in the fridge (takes care of the cold strat. requirement) if you want to do it quicker than wait for WSing.

Just a suggestion: I find that if I keep a document on my computer (ie I have a WS journal to plot the success of the seedlings as well my inside seeds progress. I use an excel spread sheet, but keep track of other things like bare roots I planted inside to give them a head start (terrible winter here in Mass. this year!)

So this way you dont have to keep track of a paper...you can save the file on your computer or do something as simple as send an email to yourself, and cut/paste or forward for updates :o)

I opened all the jugs of dls -- I was a bit too confident: two of them show no sprouts. Don't know if they're just slow or what (some are just now barely showing, so these two may yet.) I can resow those two crosses but not today! I am tired out from other gardening stuff.

It happens in a flash, but the memory of it last forever. It can not be borrowed or stolen, and it is of no earthly good until it is given away. So if in your hurry you meet someone who is too weary to smile, leave him one of yours, for no one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none to give...

Today I took the tops all the way off the daylily seedlings. There are two more jugs, one with nice healthy seedlings and one in which they have not emerged at all, but this tray would only hold 10 jugs so those other two are conferring elsewhere.
Most jugs I write the names on the top but for these I was foresighted enough to write the parents' names on the bottom part of the jugs. So it was easy to take those tops off and discard them.

It happens in a flash, but the memory of it last forever. It can not be borrowed or stolen, and it is of no earthly good until it is given away. So if in your hurry you meet someone who is too weary to smile, leave him one of yours, for no one needs a smile quite as much as he who has none to give...